Given Tablets but No Teacher Program

Assalamualaikum, hi everyone!

Before I forget, Happy Eidul Adha to all of you..hehe.. So, how’s your holiday? Are you happy? ^^,

Alright, this week I will talk about the experiment involving children in Ethiopia. What? Oh! Don’t worry is not about the lab test or finding new alien stereotype. It is about One Laptop Per Child project. The founder, Nicholas Negroponte, explains that 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling took part in the latter because they wanted to try something new in two remote Ethiopian villages by giving them tablet computers with programs. He said that in term of seeing them how to read all by themselves, they also wants to see if illiterate children with no exposure to written words can learn by experimenting with alphabet-training games, e-books, movies, cartoons, paintings and other fun programs. 

The result was so amazing! The children were engaged in using and recharging the machines and reciting the alphabet song and also spelling words. How the researchers know?? Actually before they gave the tablet to the children, they already set up a program that can monitor the children’s activity by using the computer.

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) workers said that they thought the children won’t do anything with the computer. It’s so out of the blue when they can sing the ABC songs in the village within two weeks. The fact is the kind of inquiry and kind of discovery is essential to learning.

What I want to highlight here is the contribution of a company towards children who hasn't the opportunity to go to school gives impact to the poor children, they are willing to give the tablet as long as they see the changes from the children.

I like this quote: “If they can learn to read, then they can read to learn”- by Negroponte.

What about Malaysia? Yes, we have. So, we watch the result! ^^,

Credited to: technologyreview